Word: companioner
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...director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies at a magnificent compound designed by Louis Kahn, on an oceanfront promontory in La Jolla, California. It attracted scientists in many fields to pursue biomedical research. In 1970, two years after divorcing his first wife, Salk married Francoise Gilot, the onetime companion and muse of Pablo Picasso and mother of two of Picasso's children...
...something--Midwestern poets or Latino poets, farmer poets or cowboy poets, formal poets or rap poets. It all feels sometimes like an extended, floating party. Celebration is certainly the aim of Bill Moyers' eight-part PBS series The Language of Life, whose airing coincides with the publication of a companion book, predictably subtitled A Festival of Poets...
...there were times when I found a companion on this trail of madness. When new ballplayers came up from the minors, for instance, I always talked to them. "What's it like to be here?" I wanted to know. "A dream come true," they said. The thing is, "a dream come true" is such a banal cliche that it pains me to type it. But when two rookies in a room of veterans have this conversation, the meaning is sky-blue clear. It is a shade unreal...
...companion might be expecting a conservative tirade from the former president of the Harvard Republican Club and a guardian of Peninsula, a conservative campus magazine. Instead, Campbell, who spent three years rowing crew, jokes about his growing waistline. The NRA cap? He likes to shock Harvard liberals with the cap and by "whistling `Dixie' in the Yard." And when he meets someone open-minded, the cap can prompt a conversation that bridges ideological divides...
...normally skeptical Dole, returning from a two-day trip last week to Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, admitted to a lieutenant, "It feels good out there." This campaign is different from his previous outings. Discipline is now a more regular companion. Prior to his announcement swing in April, Dole spent some time at his Washington headquarters delivering his stump speech to an empty TV studio. He wasn't keen about the idea-and he didn't deliver it very well. But his aides first tested the speech's broad themes with a focus group of Republican...